Tom Seymour

Tom Seymour is Editor at Chanel, and was previously an editor at The Art Newspaper. His words have been published in The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, Financial Times, Wallpaper* and The Telegraph. He has won Writer of the Year and Specialist Writer of the year on three separate occassions at the PPA Awards for his work with The Royal Photographic Society.

Photographing The Vast New Tunnels Underneath London

It’s cost the taxpayer £15 billion, it stretches for 26 miles, and it has unearthed artefacts from eight thousand years of London’s history. The British photographer Simon Norfolk, on commission for National Geographic Magazine, went 40 meters beneath the streets of London to photograph Crossrail.

4 October 2016

Side Gallery Reopens After Major Redevelopment With Childhoods Photography Exhibition

The only photography venue in the UK exclusively devoted to documentary photography, Side Gallery closed in 2015 for a major redevelopment. Last summer 60,000 people came to see For Ever Amber, the retrospective of the extraordinary AmberSide Collection at Newcastle’s Laing Art Gallery. Finally after a year and a half, Amber has got its gallery back, representing a new chapter in the film and photography collective’s history.

30 September 2016